The RT Elements are applications for radiation treatment planning for use in stereotactic, conformal, computer planned, Linac based radiation treatment of cranial, head and neck and extracranial lesions.
Device Story
RT Elements is a software suite for radiation treatment planning and quality assurance (QA). Inputs include medical images (DICOM) and clinical data. The system uses pencil beam and Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithms to simulate radiation delivery, optimize treatment plans (including VMAT), and perform patient-specific QA on phantoms. Operated by medical physicists, radiation oncologists, and dosimetrists in clinical settings (hospitals/planning offices). Outputs include optimized treatment plans, isodose lines, dose-volume histograms (DVHs), and QA verification reports. These outputs assist clinicians in evaluating treatment strategies, such as in tumor board meetings or operating rooms, to improve planning accuracy and ensure plan deliverability for lesions like vestibular schwannomas, pituitary adenomas, meningiomas, gliomas, and arteriovenous malformations.
Clinical Evidence
Bench testing only. Verification performed at top-level and subsystem levels for VMAT planning, QA, and data management. Validation included usability testing and clinical expert evaluation of Cranial SRS and Spine SRS workflows. Dose calculation accuracy for pencil beam and Monte Carlo algorithms verified to be better than 3% per IAEA-TECDOC-1540.
Technological Characteristics
Software-based radiation treatment planning system. Features pencil beam (Mohan et al.) and Monte Carlo (Voxel Monte Carlo) dose calculation algorithms. Supports DICOM import/export, 3D viewing, and VMAT optimization. Connectivity via networked DICOM standards. Operates on standard clinical hardware with touchscreen/mouse/keyboard interface. No specific material construction as it is a software-only device.
Indications for Use
Indicated for radiation treatment planning for stereotactic, conformal, computer-planned, Linac-based radiation therapy of cranial, head and neck, and extracranial lesions. No specific demographic, regional, or cultural limitations.
Regulatory Classification
Identification
A medical charged-particle radiation therapy system is a device that produces by acceleration high energy charged particles (e.g., electrons and protons) intended for use in radiation therapy. This generic type of device may include signal analysis and display equipment, patient and equipment supports, treatment planning computer programs, component parts, and accessories.
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Brainlab AG % Mr. Alexander Schwiersch Regulatory Affairs Manager Olof-Palme-Str.9 Munchen, 81829 GERMANY
Re: K170750
Trade/Device Name: RT Elements, Cranial SRS, Spine SRS, Multiple Brain Mets SRS, RT QA, Adaptive Hybrid Surgery Analysis, Dose Review Regulation Number: 21 CFR 892.5050 Regulation Name: Medical charged-particle radiation therapy system Regulatory Class: II Product Code: MUJ Dated: August 2, 2017 Received: August 7, 2017
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## Indications for Use
510(k) Number (if known) K170750
#### Device Name
RT Elements, Cranial SRS, Spine SRS, Multiple Brain Mets SRS, RT QA, Adaptive Hybrid Surgery Analysis, Dose Review
Indications for Use (Describe)
The RT Elements are applications for radiation treatment planning for use in stereotactic, conformal, computer planned, Linac based radiation treatment of cranial, head and neck, and extracranial lesions.
The "Dose Review" application as one RT Element contains features for review of isodose lines, review of DVHs, dose comparison and dose summation.
The "Multiple Brain Mets SRS" application as one RT Element provides optimized planning and display for cranial multimetastases radiation treatment planning.
The "Adaptive Hybrid Surgery Analysis" application as one RT Element simulates an automated tadiation treatment plan. The simulated plan is intented for treatment evaluation for example in tumor board meetings or operating rooms.
The "Cranial SRS" application as one RT Element provides optimized planning and display for cranial radiation treatment planning.
The "Spine SRS" application as one RT Element provides optimized planning and display for single spine metastases.
"RT QA" is an accessory to the RT Elements and contains features for patient specific quality assurance.
Use "RT QA" to recalculate patient treatment plans on a phantom to verify that the patient treatment plan fulfills the planning requirements.
| Type of Use (Select one or both, as applicable) | |
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| Over-The-Counter Use (21 CFR 801 Subpart C) | <span style="font-size: 1em;">☐</span> |
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# 510 (K) SUMMARY OF SAFETY AND EFFECTIVENESS FOR RT ELEMENTS
| Manufacturer: | Brainlab AG<br>Olof-Palme-Str. 9 |
|-----------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| | 81829 München<br>Germany |
| | Phone: +49 89 99 15 68 0<br>Fax: +49 89 99 15 68 5033 |
| Submitter: | Rainer Birkenbach |
| Contact person: | Alexander Schwiersch |
| Summary date: | 7/7/2017 |
| Device: | RT Elements |
| Trade name: | Dose Review, Multiple Brain Mets SRS, Cranial SRS, Spine SRS, RT QA |
| Common/Classific<br>ation Name: | System, Planning, Radiation Therapy Treatment |
| Primary<br>predicate Device: | K170355 Raystation 6 |
| Reference<br>Devices: | K142108 RT Elements<br>K103246 iPlan RT |
| Device<br>classification<br>name: | Medical charged-particle radiation therapy system |
| Regulatory Class: | Class II |
| Requlation<br>Number: | 21 CFR 892.5050 |
| Product Code: | MUJ |
| Intended use: | The RT Elements are applications for radiation treatment planning for use in<br>stereotactic, conformal, computer planned, Linac based radiation treatment of<br>cranial, head and neck and extracranial lesions. |
| Indications for<br>use: | The RT Elements are applications for radiation treatment planning for use in<br>stereotactic, conformal, computer planned, Linac based radiation treatment of<br>cranial, head and neck and extracranial lesions. |
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The Dose Review application as one RT Element contains features for review of isodose lines, review of DVHs, dose comparison and dose summation.
The Multiple Brain Mets SRS application as one RT Element provides optimized planning and display for cranial multi-metastases radiation treatment planning.
The Adaptive Hybrid Surgery Analysis application as one RT Element simulates an automated template-based radiation treatment plan. The simulated plan is intended for treatment evaluation for example in tumor board meetings or operating rooms.
#### Content of this submission:
The Cranial SRS application as one RT Element provides optimized planning and display for cranial radiation treatment planning.
The Spine SRS application as one RT Element provides optimized planning and display for single spine metastases.
RT QA is an accessory to the RT Elements and contains features for patient specific quality assurance.
Use RT QA to recalculate patient treatment plans on a phantom to verify that the patient treatment plan fulfills the planning requirements.
Device The Dose Review application as one RT Element contains features for review of description: isodose lines, review of DVHs, dose comparison and dose summation.
> The Multiple Brain Mets SRS application as one RT Element provides optimized planning and display for cranial multi-metastases radiation treatment planning.
The Adaptive Hybrid Surgery Analysis application as one RT Element simulates an automated template-based radiation treatment plan. The simulated plan is intended for treatment evaluation for example in tumor board meetings or operating rooms.
The Cranial SRS application as one RT Element provides optimized planning and display for radiation treatment planning for single lesions in the cranium. Cranial SRS 1.0 provides single lesion planning using a Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) optimization, thus allowing dose modulation with both the MLC leaf positions and the dose rate or gantry speed. It particularly offers planning for lesions in the brain which benefit from dose modulation like large tumors close to organs at risk with a complex geometry. These indications include, but are not limited to Vestibular Schwannomas, Pituitary Adenomas, Meningiomas and Gliomas. Cranial SRS 1.0 can also be used for treating vascular anomalies like arteriovenous malformations (AVMs).
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The Spine SRS application as one RT Element provides optimized planning and display for single spine metastases.
RT QA is an accessory to the RT Elements and contains features for patient specific quality assurance.
Use RT QA to recalculate patient treatment plans on a phantom to verify that the patient treatment plan fulfills the planning requirements.
## Operator Profile:
Typical users of the RT Elements are medical professionals who perform radiation treatment planning (medical physicists, radiation oncologists, dosimetrists, physicians, etc.).
#### Patient Population:
There are no demographic, regional or cultural limitations for patients. It is up to the user to decide if the system shall be used to assist a certain procedure
#### Conditions of use:
The system can be used in a hospital environment, in a clinical planning office.
#### Dose Calculation algorithms:
The Brainlab pencil beam dose algorithm is based on publications by Mohan et al (1985, 1986, and 1987).
- ූ Mohan R, Chui C, Lidofsky L; Energy and angular distributions of photons from medical accelerators. (1985) Med. Phys. 12 pp 592 - 597.
- Mohan R, Chui C, Lidofsky L; Differential pencil beam dose computation model for phot (1986) Med. Phys. 13 pp 64 - 73.
- · Mohan R, Chui C; Use of fast fourier transforms in calculating dose distributions for irre; shaped fields for three-dimensional treatment planning. (1987) Med. Phys. 14 pp 70 - 7
The Brainlab Monte Carlo algorithm is based on the X-ray Voxel Monte Carlo algorithm developed by Iwan Kawrakow and Matthias Fippel (Kawrakow et al 1996, Fippel et al 1997, Fippel 1999, Fippel et al 1999, Kawrakow and Fippel 2000. Fippel et al 2003. Fippel 2004).
- · Fippel M: Fast Monte Carlo dose calculation for photon beams based on the VMC algorithm, Medical Physics 26 (1999) 1466-1475.
- · Fippel M: Efficient particle transport simulation through beam modulating devices Carlo treatment planning, Medical Physics 31 (2004) 1235-1242.
- · Fippel M. Haryanto F. Dohm O. Nüsslin F. Kriesen S: A virtual photon energy fluer Monte Carlo dose calculation, Medical Physics 30 (2003) 301-311.
- · Fippel M, Kawrakow I, Friedrich K: Electron beam dose calculations with the VMC and the verification data of the NCI working group, Physics in Medicine and Biolo‹ 501-520.
- · Fippel M. Laub W. Huber B. Nüsslin F: Experimental investigation of a fast Monte beam dose calculation algorithm, Physics in Medicine and Biology 44 (1999) 303{
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| | · Kawrakow I, Fippel M: Investigation of variance reduction techniques for Monte<br>dose calculation using XVMC, Physics in Medicine and Biology 45 (2000) 2163<br>· Kawrakow I, Fippel M, Friedrich K: 3D Electron Dose Calculation using a Voxel<br>Carlo Algorithm (VMC), Medical Physics 23 (1996) 445-457. | | | | |
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| | The accuracy of both algorithms is tested according to IAEA-TECDOC-1540 to<br>be better than 3%. | | | | |
| | The pencil beam algorithm has limited accuracy for dose calculations near<br>inhomogeneous areas such as lung or bone tissue or close to the tissue border<br>(both within a range of a few centimeters). The Monte Carlo algorithm is affected<br>by the general limitation that in some cases the Hounsfield-Unit values of the CT<br>scan do not represent the real characteristics of a material (e.g. mass density<br>and material composition). This may lead to inaccurate dose calculation for non-<br>human tissue materials (e.g. implants). | | | | |
| Substantial<br>equivalence: | The RT Elements are the current RT planning software generation of Brainlab.<br>New in the RT Elements are the following features:<br>- Treatment planning using the VMAT optimization algorithm and<br>- Optimized arc placement<br>VMAT algorithm for dose planning:<br>Following the decision making flowchart in appendix A of the guideline<br>Evaluating Substantial Equivalence in Premarket Notifications [510(k)] we<br>evaluated the substantial equivalence in respect to the new feature VMAT<br>algorithm for dose planning between the primary predicate Raystation 6<br>(K170355). And the subject device of this submission. The primary predicate is<br>legally marketed and the devices have the same intended use. The following<br>table compares the technological characteristics of the two devices in respect of<br>the VMAT algorithm for dose planning: | | | | |
| | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
| | Technological | Raystation 6 | RT Elements | | |
| | characteristics | (K170355) | (K170750) | | |
| | Optimization based on | Yes | Yes | | |
| | constraints for organs at risk | | | | |
| | Direct optimization of MLC leaf | Yes | Yes | | |
| | positions | | | | |
| | Direct optimization of dose rate<br>Direct optimization of gantry | Yes | Yes | | |
| | speed | Yes | Yes | | |
| | Possibility to create single or<br>multiple-arc plans | Yes | Yes | | |
| | Possibility to use constant<br>dose rate | Yes | Yes | | |
| | Fulfillment of all accelerator<br>constraints | Yes | Yes | | |
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| Final forward dose calculation<br>for the optimization result | Yes | Yes |
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| Export of the optimized<br>treatment plan via DICOM RT | Yes | Yes |
## Optimized arc placement
The primary predicate Raystation 6 (K170355) offers the 3D-CRT optimization module, which is in all relevant parts comparable to the optimized arc placement included in RT Elements. The Raystation 3D-CRT optimization module offers a wide variety of optimization possibilities, while the optimization offered in the RT Elements is restricted to table angle optimization and gantry start and stop angle optimization.
Following the decision making flowchart in appendix A of the guideline Evaluating Substantial Equivalence in Premarket Notifications [510(k)] we evaluated the substantial equivalence in respect of the new feature optimized arc placement between the second predicate device Raystation 6 (K170355) and the subject device of this submission RT Elements (K170750). The predicate device K170355 is legally marketed (decision 1) and the devices have the same intended use (decision 2) The following table compares the technological characteristics of the two devices in respect of the optimized arc placement:
| Technological characteristics | Raystation 6<br>(K170355) | RT Elements<br>(K170750) |
|---------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------|--------------------------|
| Optimization based on organs at risk | Yes | Yes |
| Optimization of table angles | Yes | Yes |
| Optimization of gantry angles | Yes | Yes |
| Final forward dose calculation for the<br>optimization result | Yes | Yes |
| Export of the optimized treatment<br>plan via DICOM RT | Yes | Yes |
- Conclusion: According to these tables all technological characteristics in respect of the VMAT algorithm for dose planning and optimized arc placement of the predicate device and the RT Elements are the same. Therefore these features are substantially equivalent.
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| Technological<br>Characteristics of<br>subject device<br>compared to reference<br>devices: | device features<br>of reference<br>device<br>iPlan RT<br>(K103246) | device features<br>of reference<br>device<br>RT Elements<br>(K142108) | Device features<br>of subject<br>device | |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|-----|
| | Characteristics | | | |
| | DICOM Viewing | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| | Photon beam<br>planning | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| | 3rd party<br>Hardware<br>support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| | User interface<br>control with<br>touchscreen and<br>mouse/keyboard | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| | DICOM Image<br>import | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| | DICOM<br>Segmentation<br>import | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| | DICOM RT<br>Registration<br>import | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| | DICOM RT<br>Export | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| | Loading and<br>Saving | Yes | No | Yes |
| | 3D Viewing | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| | Treatment<br>workflow<br>support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| | Dose<br>Calculation with<br>Pencil Beam | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| | Dose<br>Calculation with<br>Monte Carlo | Yes | No | Yes |
| | Quality<br>Assurance<br>possibilities | Yes | No | Yes |
| | User defined<br>treatment<br>templates | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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| Verification/validation<br>summary: | Verification: |
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| | The verification of the existing and new features of the RT Elements has<br>been carried out throughout both at the top level and on the underlying |
been carried out throughout both at the top level and on the underlying subsystem. Planning through VMAT as well as quality assurance and saving and loading of treatment plans was successfully verified. The verification was done according to verification plans to demonstrate that the design specifications are met.
### Validation:
The validation was done according to the validation plans containing usability tests which ensure that workflows or user interface are suitable for radiotherapy treatment planning. Furthermore clinical experts evaluated the clinical suitability of radiation therapy planning using the Cranial SRS and Spine SRS workflows. The acceptance and deliverability of VMAT treatment plans was successfully validated.
All tests reports were rated as successful according to the acceptance criteria. The validation was performed with software versions and units that are considered equivalent to the final version of the product, as warranted by 21 CFR 820.30(g) and which have the UI as planned for the release.
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